Sleigh-runner attachment for vehicles.



No-{817,982. PATENTED APR. 1'7, 1906.

T J I. & T. E. NICHOLSON. SLEIGH RUNNER ATTACHMENT FORVEHIGLBS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1906.

Hlllh UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN I. NICHOLSON AND THOMAS E. NICHOLSON, OF WVASHINGTON, IOWA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed July 8,1905. Serial N0- 269,115.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN I. NICHOLSON and THOMAS E. NIoHOLsoN, citizensof the United States, residing at Washington, in the county ofWashington and State of Iowa, have invented a new and usefulSleigh-Runner Attachment for Carriages on Wheels, of which the followingis a specification.

Our object is, first, to utilize the runninggear of a wheeled vehiclefor producing a sleigh or sled advantageously; second, to providerunners in pairs adapted to be detachably fixed to the wheels ofvehicles, as required to utilize the runners and the wheels jointly incombination with the reach and tongue of atwo-horse wagon or carriage orshafts of a one-horse vehicle; third, to rigidly fix the runners to thewheels as required to prevent the wheels from rotating and flexiblyconnect them with the reach, box, pole, or shaft, as required to allowlateral and vertical motion between the parts relative to each other andthe surface of the ground upon which the vehicle is advanced.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof elements and subcombinations, as hereinafter set forth, pointed outin our claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a top view of a pair of sleighrunners rigidly connected attheir front portions by a straight cross-bar. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof a two-horse wagon and shows pairs of runners combined therewith, asre quired for practical use. Fig. 3 shows a modified manner ofdetachably clamping a runner to a wheel. Fig. 4 shows the front of aone-horse vehicle in an inverted position and the runners flexiblyconnected with the shafts and also flexibly connected with each other bya jointed cross-bar.

The numeral 10 designates mating runners connected at their frontportions, as shown in Fig. 1, by a cross-bar 12. To their central partsand on their tops are fixed blocks 13, that are concave on their topsurfaces, as required to admit the convex surfaces of the rims of thewheels to which the runners are to be fitted and fixed by means of clips14 and braces 15, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable Way.

The pair of runners 10, connected with the rear wagon-wheels, areflexibly connected with the wagon-reach 16 by means of a coilspring 17,attached to the center of the crossbar 12, as shown in Fig. 2, or in anysuitable way that will allow restricted vertical and also lateral motionof the reach and wagon relative to the pairs of runners fixed to thewheels.

The pair of runners fixed to the front wagon-wheels are flexiblyconnected with the wagon-pole 18 by means of a jointed screwbolt 19,fixed to the center of the cross-bar 12, and to an eyebolt 20, fixed tothe pole, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way, as required toallow vertical and lateral motions relative to the runners 10 andcross-bar 12 fixed on the runners.

Fig. 3 shows clamps 21, pivotally and detachably connected with therunners 10 and the blocks 13 and set-screws 22 in the clamps to engagethe inside surfaces of the rims of the wheel, as required to securelyretain the runners detachably fixed to the wheel.

Fig. 4 shows the cross-bar 12, jointed near its ends, as required toallow independent vertical motion to the runners 10 and wheels to whichthey are fixed. It also shows the center of the cross-bar flexiblyconnected with the center of the crossbar of the shafts by means ofeyebolts 23, as required to allow vertical and lateral motions betweenthe cross-bar 12 and the shafts.

Having thus set forth the purposes of our invention and its constructionand application, the practical operation and utility thereof will bereadily understood by farmers and others familiar with the art to whichit pertains.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pair of sleigh-runners connected at their front end portions by across-bar and detachably fixed to the rear wheels of a wagon and thecross-bar flexibly connected with the reach of the wagon by means of aspring.

2. A pair of sleigh-runners connected at their front end portions by across-bar and detachably fixed to the front wheels of a wagon and meansto detachably and flexibly connect the cross-bar to the pole of thewagon.

3. A pair of sleigh-runners connected at their front end portions by across-bar and detachably fixed to the front wheels of a wagon and ajointed screw-bolt to detachably fix the cross-bar to the pole of thewagon.

4. A sleigh-runner attachment for carreach of the carriage and therunners detachably fixed to the rear carriage-Wheels.

JOHN I. NICHOLSON.

riages on Wheels comprising a pair of runners rigidly connected by across-bar and the cross-bar flexibly connected With the carriage-poleand the runners detachably fixed i THOMAS E. NICHOLSON. 5 to the frontcarriage-Wheels and a second Witnesses:

pair of runners rigidly connected by a cross- 7 SETH K. COATS,

bar and the cross-bar connected With the J. G. KELLOGG.

